Meaning of Locust | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).
3. A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
   historical
4. Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
5. A cicada.
6. A Mainlander.
   Hong-Kong, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur
7. A dose of laudanum.
   UK, obsolete, slang

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Examples

“Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.”

“I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight.”

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